Tar Heels rally past Duke
DURHAM, N.C. — Tyler Hansbrough squared up in front of the Cameron Crazies and tossed up a long 3-pointer — just like he did three years earlier.
Just as then, the North Carolina star swished it through.
"I'm not scared to shoot 'em," Hansbrough said.
Here's something else that never seems to change around here: Hansbrough, walking off Coach K's court a winner.
Ty Lawson scored 21 of his season-high 25 points in the second half and the third-ranked Tar Heels rallied past No. 6 Duke 101-87 on Wednesday night.
Hansbrough scored 17 points while remaining perfect at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the Tar Heels (22-2, 8-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who won their eighth straight while becoming the first team in nine seasons to hit triple digits against Duke.
"Each year it's been different," Hansbrough said. "Our freshman year, no one thought we could come in here and win. ... Tonight was one of those things where you didn't want to think about the record. We just wanted to come out and play."
They came on strong down the stretch, using late runs of 25-11 and 14-0 to first take the lead for good and then stretch it to 17. In the process, they snapped the Blue Devils' 14-game home court winning streak while claiming first place in the ACC standings.
Wayne Ellington and Danny Green added 15 points apiece. Green and Hansbrough joined former Wake Forest standouts Tim Duncan and Rusty LaRue as the only players to beat Mike Krzyzewski four straight times on the Cameron court that now bears his name.
Kyle Singler scored 22 points and Jon Scheyer added 20 to lead Duke (20-4, 7-3), which kept up with the uptempo Tar Heels for about 30 minutes before spiraling to its fifth loss in six meetings with the hated rival located 8 miles down Tobacco Road.
"In the second half, we kind of had the mindset that we were going to outscore them," Singler said. "But you're not going to outscore Carolina."
Gerald Henderson finished with 17 points — but shot just 1-for-9 in the second half.
"We did not hit shots for a short period of time there," Krzyzewski said. "And they did, and they got away from us."
Then, Lawson gave North Carolina all the separation it needed a short while later, when he scored nine of the 12 straight points reeled off by the Tar Heels.
